Tensions Inherent in Service-Learning: Achieving Balance

This resource helps community colleges to understand the tensions inherent in the integration of service-learning into community and technical colleges. Faculty discuss the tensions encountered in moving service-learning from a marginal pedagogy to an authentic method of teaching and learning. Essays include: "Unwrapping Gifts: Instituting an Asset-Oriented Culture at a Community" ; "Service-Learning and Workload Tensions: From Pedagogy to Curriculum to Community" ; "Expanding the Classroom: New Communities and New Curriculum Through Service-Learning and the Internet"; "Assessment Anxiety: Taking the Plunge"; "Service-Learning: A Bridge to the 21st Century Community College"; and "The Tension of Theory and Practice in Service-Learning".